The Bank of the United States was the depository of the moneys of the nation and her disbursing agent.
An expose of funds in the hands of disbursing agents shows there are nearly seventy millions of dollars not accounted for!
The House of Representatives yesterday passed a singular compensation bill, benefiting two disbursing clerks and others already rich enough.
The disbursing clerk is paying us "half salaries" to-day, as suggested in a note I wrote the Secretary yesterday.
Certain payments may be authorized by the Postmaster General to be made by postmasters designated as disbursing officers.
The Department authorizes and directs disbursing postmasters, one in each State, to pay the monthly salaries of rural delivery carriers.
The office was accepted with great reluctance, for his inclination was to serve in the line; and the charge and disbursing the public money was to him of all things unpleasant.
Footnote 13: Relating to the deposits of public moneys in banks by disbursing officers and agents.
The President wishes it further to be announced and distinctly understood that from all collecting and disbursing officers promptitude in rendering accounts and entire punctuality in paying balances will be rigorously exacted.
What can the local discounts of the bank have to do with the collecting, safe-keeping, and disbursing of the revenue?
The system adopted in pursuance of existing laws seems well calculated to save the country a large amount of interest, while it affords conveniences and obviates dangers and expense in the transmission of funds to disbursing agents.
Order and efficiency in each branch of the public service have prevailed, accompanied by a system of the most rigid responsibility on the part of the receiving and disbursing agents.
The appropriations should be direct and explicit, so as to leave as limited a share of discretion to the disbursing agents as may be found compatible with the public service.
These agents incur heavy responsibilities and perform important duties, and no reason exists why they should not be placed on the same footing as to compensation with other disbursing officers.
Treasury, and unexpended balances still remain in the hands of disbursing officers and those who were engaged in the collection of these moneys.
His plans for replenishing the public funds, regulating expenditures and disbursing moneys, were based on rules of frugality and economy corresponding with the embarrassments of that trying period.
Up to that time there was no disbursing agent and large sums of money were placed in the hands of irresponsible agents and never reached their legitimate destination.
In the modes of business and official restraints ondisbursing officers no legal change was produced by the suspension of specie payments.
The continued agitation of the question relative to the best mode of keeping and disbursing the public money still injuriously affects the business of the country.
By law the terms of service of our most important collecting and disbursing officers in the civil departments are limited to four years, and when reappointed their bonds are required to be renewed.
Those were days when, as now, disbursing officers were forbidden to gamble, but when, not as now, the law was a dead letter.
An officer of the Army will be detailed by the Secretary of War and an officer of the Navy will be detailed by the Secretary of the Navy to report to the president of the board for duty as disbursing officers of the board.
Just like it is a crime to have any kind of a show or procession on Sunday except a funeral, in which case it's a crime to make a disbursing noise at it.
You can't make a disbursing noise at a funeral on Sunday.
It was found to operate contrary to its intent, and to have become the facile means of getting rid of faithful disbursing officers, instead of retaining them.
It seems also to be an open secret who the disbursing treasurers are of this fund, from whom the members, detailed to do the dark bidding of the "organisation," receive their wage.
Such a deposit would operate to increase the resources at the command of military disbursing officers in the Islands without increasing the amount actually in circulation until the occasion arose to disburse it.
The report of the Secretary shows the gratifying fact that among all the disbursing officers of the Pay Corps of the Navy there is not one who is a defaulter to the extent of a single dollar.
Escorts the size of a cavalry platoon had been needed every time a disbursing officer went to and fro, and a sizable squad accompanied the stage whenever it carried even a moderate amount of treasure.
The more devout people stoop over the bodies and kiss them fervently all over, voluntarily and gladly disbursing in return for the privilege all such small cash as may lie idle in their pockets.
When an option is left to the prisoner of undergoing the bastinado or paying a fine, he generally selects the sticks, which he feels much less than the anguish of disbursing the smallest sum in cash.
The disbursing officer fraudulently drew checks payable to fictitious payees and cashed them under forged indorsements of the fictitious payees' name.
Ray told Stannard when he went on this detail that he would touch no card so long as he wasdisbursing officer, and that he'd let John Barleycorn alone.
He himself was put on other duty when they went to Mexico, and, finally, in the great war of the Rebellion, there was constant need of regulars to act as mustering and disbursing officers at the rear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disbursing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
